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Film Wettability Not So Simple

(Magazine)

March 31, 2004, ... wettability on a substrate for a specific printing apparatus. Ink formulators improve ink wetting through creative formulation of ink ingredients, while the printer uses press adjustments and surface treatment ...

Bio Break Down

(Flexpack)

March 30, 2004, ... limited in comparison to non-blended formulations. If compost programs include restaurant waste or even hot, moist coffee grounds, blended products can have poor results. Blended products also would include ...

Competitive Investment Strategies for Packaging Converters

(News | New Products)

March 08, 2004, ... technologies. These advancements have affected prepress, platemaking, ink formulations, substrates, printing and converting equipment, and even the final product. It is becoming increasingly difficult ...

Appleton Introduces Ream Wrap MoistureBloc; Delivers Moisture Barrier and Is 100% Recyclable/Repulpable

(News | New Products)

March 04, 2004, ... convertibility with a patent-pending coating formulation that provides outstanding moisture barrier protection. MoistureBloc for ream wrap has been certified repulpable by Great Lakes Pulp & Fibre to ...

Less Coating, More Control

(Magazine)

February 28, 2004, ... ‘exotic.’” “Radiation curing is getting more popular,” Ostness notes,” [due to] new laminating adhesives and primer formulations, new hardcoat/topcoat coating formulations, and webs becoming more frail ...

Converting Industry News

(Magazine)

February 28, 2004, ... been listed as yet by the FDA for the relatively recent strong emergence of UV and EB ink, adhesive, and coating formulations.” Explains RadTech board member Ron Golden, “Without FDA clearance, when ...

Coating and Laminating: At the Heart of the Packaging Industry

(Magazine)

January 31, 2004, ... labels per roll, and print-friendly topcoatings on paper stocks enable lower grades and calipers to be used. Adhesive formulations now favor emulsions and hot melts, with the new UV hot melts approaching ...

Darwin Would Approve

(Unprinted Rolls)

January 30, 2004, ... market. We can coat aqueous and solvent formulations in either direct, reverse, or offset gravure modes and our flotation ovens, with independent top and bottom side heating, assure controlled drying and ...

UV & Jet Inks: An Exciting Combo

(Materials)

January 30, 2004, ... versions that use organic materials as diluents. The advantage of water-based-formulated UV jet inks is that these formulations produce low-viscosity inks. The inks are formulated with UV-curable resin ...

Converting Industry News

(Magazine)

January 30, 2004, ... graphic arts, photoinitiators, cationic chemistry, formulation, nanotechnology, raw materials, industrial applications, water-borne formulations, and an international market overview. As part of the ...

Technical Conference Announced for Leading UV & EB Event

(News | New Products)

January 20, 2004, ... including: Chemistry, Equipment, Adhesives, Measurement & Analysis, Graphic Arts, Photoinitiators, Cationic Chemistry, Formulation, Nanotechnology, Raw Materials, Industrial Applications, Waterborne Formulations, ...

Converting Less Ordinary

(Magazine)

December 30, 2003, ... other products. These unique active cosmetic patches, intended for home use, significantly boost topical delivery of cosmetic formulations, increasing their overall efficacy by several orders of magnitude. ...

Converting Industry News

(Magazine)

November 29, 2003, ... the Barex film business, in addition to its proprietary product formulations and trade names, and will relocate the manufacturing assets to its Beaver, WV, facility. Printpack Adds Amcor Virginia Facility ...

Film Supplier Klockner Pentaplast Acquires Greenway Plastics, Slated to Open Brazil PVC Plant

(News | New Products)

October 21, 2003, ... its proprietary product formulations and trade names. Greenway Plastics Industries (formerly owned by Orangeburg, NY-based Innovative Plastics Corp.) is the sole North American extruder of BAREX acrylonitrile ...

A Cure for the Common Marketing Technique

(News | New Products)

September 07, 2003, Bristol-Myers Squibb Company is a known leader in headache relief, but as the company recently prepared to introduce a “melt-in-your-mouth” formulation of its popular Excedrin headache medication, it was ...

Materials

(Materials)

August 31, 2003, ... polymers. Transparent, toughened styrenic block copolymers (SBCs) are said to provide high clarity. Designed to add key performance benefits to PS formulations, polymers reportedly deliver a good balance ...

Ink Jet PigmentsThe Land of the Small

(Materials)

July 31, 2003, ... produce complex dyes based on its chemistry. As such, its resistance properties fall between dyes and pigments. Typically, two-year shelf life stability is expected for an ink jet formulation. Unlike ...

Products

(Magazine)

July 31, 2003, ... to the supplier through built-in e-mail order entry. Software is said to provide a simplified method of management, formulation, and print design data, returned ink workoff, stock control, environmental ...

RadTech Pursues FDA Clearance for UV/EB Food Packaging

(News | New Products)

July 20, 2003, ... many years, there virtually are no basic componets listed as of yet by the FDA for the relatively recent strong emergence of UV and EB ink, adhesive, and coating formulations." Adds RadTech board member ...

Reporter Clips

(Magazine)

June 30, 2003, ... distribution and reduce the frequency of replacement stock cycles. Classic AGELESS packets are available in a variety of shapes, sizes, and formulations and are inserted into a barrier package either ...